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This is where I have been working the past few months. It is working out quite well especially since it is just down the street from where I live.

It had been a while that I was looking for a studio, but last month I found a place to work. It is a nice, smallish place with large windows on Pine Avenue near St Laurent Blvd (for those familiar with Montreal).

Someone has installed a malicious script on my server and is sending phishing emails. This will be resolved soon. I am sorry if you have received any of these emails. I am not exactly sure how this works, how they managed to do it or even what it is they exactly did.

This is why my web site and blog were off-line yesterday.

I am still searching for a small studio to rent or for a larger one to share. I sometimes use oil paints but use non-toxic solvents. If you know of a place in Montreal please let me know.

Nice to see that the painting has found a nice home.

I am working on a new section for my portfolio web site where people will be able to purchase small works on paper. They will be easy to ship and not too expensive (and you will be able to pay online). Coming soon.

I am not sure what to call the section, Gallery? Store? Purchase? Buy? The last three seem a bit crass. Suggestions?

Some of you may know that I have a day job working as a web designer. If you are looking to have a web site designed I am available for these type of projects. Are you an artist looking to have a professional looking portfolio site? Contact me if you are interested and I will give you a quote for your project as well as send you a list of web sites that I have designed.

Yesterday, while in traffic on boulevard Saint-Laurent, I saw a pigeon fall from the sky.

And land squarely on the white dotted line of the street.

Canadian Federal Election 2006
Here are 2 graphics that show the percentage of popular vote won compared to the percentage of seats won by the parties. In the Canadian graph, all of the parties get more seats (percentage) than the popular vote, exept for the New Democratic Party.

In the Quebec results, all the parties are at a disadvantage exept for the Bloc Quebecois. The Bloc gets 42 % of the popular vote but wins 68 % of the seats.

Had the same votes been cast under a proportional voting system, Fair Vote Canada projected that the seats allocation would have been approximately as follows:

Conservatives - 36.3% of the popular vote: 113 seats (not 124)
Liberals - 30.1% of the popular vote: 93 seats (not 103)
NDP - 17.5% of the popular vote: 59 seats (not 29)
Bloc - 10.5% of the popular vote: 31 seats (not 51)
Greens - 4.5% of the popular vote: 12 seats (not 0)

J has opened a new massage therapy and yoga centre here in Montreal.
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Visit our new massage therapy centre at 3630 boul. St-Laurent (corner Prince-Arthur).

We now have the pleasure to offer you:

* Hatha and Ashtanga Yoga classes (maximum 8 persons per class!)
* Private Yoga therapy classes
* Sea salt exfoliant treatment (mint, rosemary, ginger and lavender)
* Massages offered : Hot Stone - Swedish - Sport - Californian
* Gift Certificates ”

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